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Managing Uncertainty in the House of Representatives: Adaption and Innovation in Special Rules - Couverture souple

Bach, Stanley

 
9780815707417: Managing Uncertainty in the House of Representatives: Adaption and Innovation in Special Rules
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 081570741X ISBN 13 : 9780815707417
Editeur : Brookings Institution Press, 1988

Synopsis

The postreform House of Representatives of the 1980's is strikingly different from the House of the 1970s. A most important change is the increasingly creative use of special rules, which structure floor debate on major legislation. The new trade of special rule craftsmanship now plays a pivotal role in managing the uncertainties of decisionmaking in the House. During the 1970s new issues and new members disrupted old ways of doing business, while organizational and procedural reforms redistributed influence and resources in ways not always anticipated. These combined to produce a much less stable, predictable environment for the Rules Committee and the entire House.
In response, the Rules Committee and the Democratic leadership devised new strategies in the form of special rules. These special rules are more complex and varied in their provisions and more likely to be restrictive in their effect on amending activity. Special rules have altered members' political calculations and strategies, changed the ways committees can protect themselves from attack on the floor, and presented the minority party with new constraints on proposing legislative alternatives.
Stanley Bach and Steven Smith examine these dramatic changes in the character of special rules and their use to shape debate and decisions in the House.

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À propos de l'auteur

Steven S. Smith is the director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of several books on congressional politics, including The American Congress (Houghton Mifflin, 1995) and Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate (Brookings, 1989).

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Éditeur
Brookings Institution Press
Date d'édition
1988
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
081570741X
ISBN 13 
9780815707417
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
153
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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